Army Officer Accuses Generals of ‘Intellectual and Moral Failures’
By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 27, 2007; Page A04
An active-duty Army officer is publishing a blistering attack on U.S. generals, saying they have botched the war in Iraq and misled Congress about the situation there.
“America’s generals have repeated the mistakes of Vietnam in Iraq,” charges Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, an Iraq veteran who is deputy commander of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. “The intellectual and moral failures . . . constitute a crisis in American generals.”